[Python-Dev] PEP 476: Enabling certificate validation by default! (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 17:35:05 CEST 2014

On 2 Sep 2014 00:59, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:53:11 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > To be frank I don't understand what you're arguing about. > > When I said "shadowing ssl can be tricky to arrange", Chris correctly > interpreted it as referring to the filesystem based privilege escalation > scenario that isolated mode handles, not to normal in-process > monkeypatching or module injection. There's no actual difference. You can have a sitecustomize.py that does the monkeypatching or the shadowing. There doesn't seem to be anything "tricky" about that.

Oh, now I get what you mean - yes, sitecustomize already poses the same kind of problem as the proposed sslcustomize (hence the existence of the related command line options).

I missed that you had switched to talking about using that attack vector, rather than trying to shadow stdlib modules directly through the filesystem (which is the only tricky thing I was referring to).

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